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This morning our guest host Gloria Borger will be bringing you the very latest on the debt ceiling negotiations, so be sure to watch our live interview with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at 9am ET.DEBT CEILING TALKS

The framework of a tentative deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling calls for up to $2.8 trillion in total deficit reduction over the next decade, two sources familiar with the negotiations told CNN late Saturday night.

The agreement, still being negotiated by the White House and bipartisan congressional leaders, would allow the debt ceiling to be raised by enough to last at least through the end of 2012.

The debt limit would be increased in two stages, both of which would occur automatically - a key Democratic demand that would prevent a repeat of the current crisis before the next election.

The emerging agreement calls for raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit by up to $2.4 trillion in two stages, with the debt limit rising unless two-thirds of both chambers of Congress disapprove, according to officials in both parties familiar with the talks. That would extend the Treasury’s borrowing authority into 2013, satisfying President Obama’s demand to avoid another showdown over the issue in the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign.

It was not immediately clear whether House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) would accept the emerging framework, or whether he could persuade his fractious caucus to support it. But Boehner, too, showed signs of paving the way for compromise Saturday, convening a meeting of the Tuesday Group, a bloc of about 45 moderate Republicans whose votes would be key to pushing any deal through the House.

Some Democrats think McConnell is pushing for the creation of the committee with the expectation that it will fail to reach a deal, which would prompt a “trigger” essentially forcing through a new round of spending cuts. Democrats have insisted that a trigger also consist of tax increases.

“A downgrade has lots of downsides, but they’re minor in comparison to not raising the debt ceiling on time, so I think the focus is correct at this point,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, a sister company to the rating agency that rates debt securities.

“What’s most important is raising the debt ceiling. That’s the minimum that they need to do to make sure the recovery in fact remains a recovery.”

The U.S. probably failed to create enough jobs in July to reduce unemployment, showing anxiety over government debt deliberations and a slowdown in consumer spending have shaken employer confidence, economists said before reports this week.

Democratic lawmakers worry that the Tea Party freshmen have already “neutered” the president, as one told me. They fret that Obama is an inept negotiator. They worry that he should have been out in the country selling a concrete plan, rather than once more kowtowing to Republicans and, as with the stimulus plan, health care and Libya, leading from behind.

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J.V.hodgson

Fed up of this comment of the president leading from behind.
He has made it clear big deal please savings and taxes, or the compromise gang of six Smpson Bowles ideas.
In this kind of crass debate, what DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM allows one part of government = the house of representatives to pass a bill on an up down vote but then does not allow the Senate the same privilege in that chamber.
Please tell this uneducated believer in balanced democracy why a MINORITY leader McConnel can prevent an up down vote on a Senate democratic deficit reduction plan ( its a filibuster for what purpose?? BENEFIT
please??
Ok the house crashes it and says no... the only problem is that puts the the whole deficit issue in the Republican blame.
When will both sides please start thinking about us Americans ( and Internationally disaster) . I hate them all never mind who I voted for last time.
What is happening at present pisses on everbody, the majority of the population big time and thd Big business as well!!
In todays world we are now finding out how a few exterme politicians can defeat the checks and balances the founding fathers created for pure ideology not people as a whole benefit.
Hello CBO says Reid = 2.2 Tr spending cuts ( no taxes) Boehner 0.9 tr and maybe unspecified how another1.6 trillion of course = spending cuts as taxes are of the grid. fed up will he listen to local and global economists those solutions dont work!!
Regards,
Hodgson.